Men in metal a topography of public bronze statuary in modern Japan
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal , Sven Saaler examines Japanese public statuary as a central site of historical memory from its beginnings in the Meiji period through the twenty-first century. Saaler shows how the elites of the modern Japanese nation-state went about constructing an iconograph...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL
[2020]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009805098606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Roots
- How Not to Be Seen: The Hidden Statuary of Emperor Meiji
- Beginnings: Statues of Imperial Figures
- Patterns of Social Behavior and Participation
- A Quantitative Analysis of Public Statuary in Modern Japan
- A Typology of Public Statuary in Modern Japan
- Mobilizing Japan's "Men in Metal" in the Asia-Pacifi c War
- Colonial Statues and Their Legacy
- The Resurgence of Public Statuary in Postwar Japan
- Public Statuary since the 1960s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
